Chemical insight into the origin of red and blue photoluminescence arising from freestanding silicon nanocrystals

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 2676-2685

  Dasog, Mita ^a   Yang, Zhenyu ^a   Regli, Sarah ^a   Atkins, Tonya M ^c   Faramus, Angelique ^d   Singh, Mani P ^c   Muthuswamy, Elayaraja ^c   Kauzlarich, Susan M ^c   Tilley, Richard D ^d   Veinot, Jonathan G C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

nitrogen; photoluminescence; silicon nanocrystals; surface functionalization

Indexed keywords

BLUE PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; COMMUNICATIONS PLATFORM; EFFECTIVE MASS APPROXIMATION; OPTICAL RESPONSE; PARTS PER MILLIONS; SILICON NANOCRYSTALS; SOLUTION METHODS; SURFACE FUNCTIONALIZATION;

FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS; NITROGEN; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; TRACE ANALYSIS;

SILICON;

NANOPARTICLE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; SILICON;

ALKYLATION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; LUMINESCENCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALKYLATION; LUMINESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NITROGEN; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; OXYGEN; PARTICLE SIZE; SILICON; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84875673116     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn4000644     Document Type: Article

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